Privacy Policy

AVIATIZE

PRIVACY POLICY

Valid as from 1 Apr 2025

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INTRODUCTION

At Aviatize we attach great importance to the protection of your Personal Data. This Privacy Policy sets out how we protect your Personal Data and who you can turn to for more information or to invoke your legal rights. If you provide us with Personal Data of other persons, such as your collaborators or Operators that will be using the Aviatize software, or associated services or other white labeled solutions provided by Aviatize (hereafter the “Tool” and the “Services”), please inform these persons of our Privacy Policy before entrusting us with their Personal Data. We reserve our right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, if legislation or our internal practices so require. At all times you can find the current version of our Privacy Policy on our website http://www.aviatize.com/privacy-policy .

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If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use or access the Website, the Tool or our Services. 

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THE CONTROLLER OF THE PROCESSING

The legal entity controlling the processing of your Personal Data is Aviatize BV, a Belgian company with limited liability whose registered office is located at Kerkstraat 106, 9050 Gentbrugge, Belgium, registered under company number 0643.586.288 and/or (as specified below) its affiliate Aviatize LLC, an Arizona limited liability company, having its principal place of business at 4636 E Fighter Aces Drive, Mesa, AZ 85215, USA with EIN number 93-3919122, hereafter separately “Aviatize BV” or “Aviatize LLC” and collectively “Aviatize”, “us” and/or “we”. When we refer to our website (“Website(s)”), we mean www.aviatize.com, www.idronect.com, www.app.aviatize.com, www.one.aviatize.com, www.platform.idronect.com,   or any other dedicated website where we offer access to our Tool and/or Services.

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PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

PURPOSES

Aviatize processes Personal Data of its customers and potential customers (hereafter “Customers”), as well as contact persons of its Customers for the following purposes: (1) conveying offers, invoicing and administration, management of the Customer or sales relationship, as well as legally required purposes linked to this purpose, and (2) direct marketing. Aviatize also processes Personal Data of visitors to our Website that fill out the contact page, for the sole purpose of (3) responding to the visitor’s request sent to us via the contact page. Aviatize BV will act as controller for these commercial activities, and the processing will be subject to Belgian and EU data protection laws, unless the activities are directed towards the US or US Customers. In that case, Aviatize LLC will act as controller, the processing will be subject to the laws of Arizona and all transactions shall be considered to take place within Arizona.

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Additionally, on our Website we may use cookies. For more information in relation to cookies, please revert to the cookie policy and pop up to be found on our Website. 

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Apart from the processing that Aviatize performs as processor for the Customer (see Aviatize PRIVACY POLICY Part II here below), Aviatize BV is also processing data of the Users of the Tool for its own purpose of: (4) optimization of the Tool (e.g. making the Tool smarter and better performing). 

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LEGAL BASIS

The legal basis for these processing operations is respectively:

• For the processing for the purpose of sales: 
  
  • To the extent that you are a collaborator of our (potential) Customer and your contact details have been provided by the Customer for the performance of the contract with the Customer or for communicating with or giving follow up to an offer to the Customer, our legal basis is the necessity for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Aviatize and the Customer to organize, and interact in relation to, the conclusion or performance of a contract. In our view, given the limited use made of your contact details, such interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Should you consider otherwise, please see below under Your legal rights in relation to privacy. 

• For the processing for direct marketing:
  
  • Our legal basis is the necessity for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Aviatize to promote sales, reinforce the relationship with the Customers, enhance customer loyalty, etc. For processing activities which are in general considered little intrusive (e.g. promotion sent by regular mail), such interests are in our view not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Should you consider otherwise, please see below under Your legal rights in relation to privacy. We may also invoke the same legal basis of our legitimate interest, for newsletters and promotions sent by e-mail to our own Customers if your e-mail contact details were received directly from you in the context of a sale, and are only used for the promotion of Aviatize’s own similar products. Every newsletter however carries a link allowing you to unsubscribe from the newsletter.
  • Alternatively our legal basis is your consent. For marketing initiatives such as calling you or sending you text messages, we will always first ask your consent. The same is true for e-mail newsletters that do not comply with the aforementioned conditions. Your consent will be asked at the moment that we receive your Personal Data (e.g. on the Website or via a sales representative). You may revoke your consent at any moment in accordance with the paragraphs here below.

• For the processing of Personal Data of visitors of our Website that fill out the contact page, for the sole purpose of responding to the visitor’s request:
  • Our legal basis is the necessity for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Aviatize to treat and give follow up to your request. Given your initiative to send your request via the contact page (which we assume you want us to reply to) and the limited use made by us of your contact details to reply, such interests are in our view, not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Should you consider otherwise, please see below under Your legal rights in relation to privacy. 

• For the processing of Personal Data of Users for the purpose of optimization of the Tool: 
  
  • Our legal basis is the necessity for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Aviatize BV to make the Tool smarter and better performing. Before analysing the Users’ Personal Data, Aviatize BV will aggregate and pseudonymise this data. Given the nature of the Personal Data processed, which is basic, no sensitive information, and the appropriate safeguards taken by Aviatize BV, in particular the pseudonymisation of the Personal Data, such interests are in our view not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Should you consider otherwise, please see below under Your legal rights in relation to privacy. 

• We may also process your Personal Data if required for legal reasons, compliance or tax and accounting reasons. The legal basis of our processing is then to be found in European, national or state law.

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THE PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED AND THE CASE BEING, THE NECESSITY OF THE PROVISION THEREOF 

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PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED

For Customers:

• Name of the Customer* (1)(2) 
• Address* (1)(2)
• For a company Customer: contact persons* (1)(2)
• E-mail address* (1)(2)
• Telephone and/or mobile number * (1)(2)
• Company entity and legal form* (1)(2)
• Company number* (1)
• VAT number* (1)
• Financial data* (1)
• Login/password (1)
• Contract related information (1)

And the case being:

• Customer complaints and details of the complaints (1) 

The Personal Data (1) are processed for the purpose of sales. The Personal Data (2) are processed for direct marketing purposes. The aforementioned Personal Data indicated with a * have to be provided if the Customer wants to engage in a sales relationship. The provision of the other Personal Data is entirely on a voluntary basis.   

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For visitors to the websites (“Visitors”):

• Name
• Contact details
• Data filled out on the contact page
• Response to request

The provision of these data is entirely on a voluntary basis. However, if you decide to submit a request, you have to fill in a name and electronic contact details. The data are only processed to properly deal with your request.

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For Users:

• Log Data, such as IP address, operating system, browser type and version, pages visited, time and date of visit, time spent on pages, statistics.

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AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION:

When you interact with our Website, advertisements or other content provided by us or processors on behalf of us, or are receiving our Services through your computer, phone or mobile device (“Device(s)”), Aviatize automatically collects certain information (“Automatically-Collected Data”) about or from your Device, such as, without limitation, your browser information on our server logs including your IP address, browser type, browser versions, browser language, browser plug-in type and version, country and time zone, URLs that refer visitors to our Website, dates and times of visits to our Website, page views and site navigation, geographic location, cookie information, web beacons, pixel tags, device fingerprinting or other means, the page you requested, duration of activity on our Website, searches, shopping behavior and preferences, hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information, and purchases. 

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THIRD PARTY SOURCES:

Aviatize may obtain personal and non-personal data from third-party sources such as YouTube. This information may be utilized, analyzed, and/or compared with information that we have collected from you or that you have submitted to the Website or in the use of the Services. If Aviatize obtains information from third-party sources other than from its own processors, Aviatize takes commercially reasonable measures to ensure the third parties lawfully obtained and provided the information to us. If the third parties unlawfully obtained and/or provided the information to us despite our reasonable measures to ensure the third parties complied with all legal requirements in obtaining and providing the information to us, you understand, agree, and acknowledge that your sole legal remedy is against the third party that engaged in the unlawful activity and that you will not assert any cause of action, claim or demand against us. 

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DURATION OF THE PROCESSING AND RETENTION OF DATA 

For Customers:

We process your Personal Data for the purpose of sales, as long as necessary in the context of the contracts entered into with you or with your organisation. Personal Data of inactive Customers, being after termination of our contracts, are retained for as long as necessary for legal, compliance or tax and accounting reasons or for as long as your purchases could give rise to legal claims. We process your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes until you oppose the processing of your Personal Data for that purpose, or if the processing was based on your consent, until you withdraw your consent.

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For Visitors to the website that fill in the contact page:

We process your personal data as long as necessary to deal with and give follow up to your request. The data is not retained afterwards (unless the case being, in the context of another processing for another purpose as detailed in this Privacy Policy). 

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For Users:

Your data is processed and stored as long as this is useful for the optimization of the Tool subject to appropriate technical and organizational measures in order to safeguard your rights and freedoms, such as in particular pseudonymisation.

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SECURITY

Aviatize takes reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Data against unauthorized access, loss, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption, pseudonymisation and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store Personal Data, and the usage of reputable third party vendors. Despite these reasonable measures, we cannot guarantee our security measures are impenetrable. Therefore, although we take reasonable steps to secure your information, we cannot and do not promise or warrant that your information will always remain secure. 

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CATEGORIES OF RECIPIENTS 

Following Personal Data may be shared in accordance with this Privacy Policy : 

1. All Personal Data with third party processors that provide services for us such as suppliers of IT and hosting services, and for relevant Personal Data email marketing and communication platforms, that are all acting on behalf of Aviatize and with whom Aviatize has entered into adequate processor contracts. These processors will only use the data for the purposes determined by Aviatize and in accordance with this Privacy Policy Part I. Aviatize LLC may also act as processor for Aviatize BV, and vice versa.

In addition, Aviatize may also share Personal Data with, or receive Personal Data from accounting and payment providers under adequate contractual guarantees.

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is possible that Aviatize must disclose your Personal Data : 

2. To the competent authorities (i) when Aviatize is obliged to do so under the law or in the context of legal proceedings and (ii) for the protection and defense of our rights. 

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TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA

Aviatize BV shall not transfer Personal Data, to a country outside the European Economic Area, unless it will make sure to have taken sufficient measures in accordance with GDPR in order to justify this transfer of personal data outside of the EEA. Aviatize will either enter into standard contractual clauses controller to processor as approved by the EC Commission with the data importer, or only transfer to a data importer that is covered by an adequacy decision. 

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Aviatize LLC may transfer personal data outside of the United States so long as it has implemented appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If a transfer is necessary, Aviatize LLC will ensure compliance by either entering into standard contractual clauses with the data recipient or transferring data only to countries deemed to have adequate data protection measures. 

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By using the Website, the Tool and/or Services, you acknowledge and agree that your information may be transferred to our facilities and to recipients with whom we share Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. 

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 YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NOT BE SOLD

We will not sell any Personal Data you submit to us to any third party provided, however, that Aviatize is permitted to:

1. disclose under contractual guarantees with the buyer and sell your Personal Data as part of our business, in the event of a merger, acquisition, change of control or sale of substantially all of our assets or our business (or any substantially similar transaction), and
2. sell aggregated and/or deidentified information that we may collect related to you and your use of the Website, Tool or Services. 

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LEGAL PROCESS AND INVESTIGATION ISSUES

From time to time, Aviatize may be required to respond to a subpoena, a court order or similar investigative demand from law enforcement, a government agency, or a private litigant. Aviatize reserves all rights to defend, within its sole discretion, against such legal requests, demands, and claims. For instance, Aviatize may raise or waive legal objections or rights. Aviatize also reserves the right to disclose your information, as allowed by applicable law, when we believe it is reasonably appropriate based on the situation. Such disclosure may occur but is not limited to, disclosing your Personal Data in connection with efforts to: (i) investigate, prevent, or commence other actions regarding suspected illegal activity or other wrongdoing; (ii) protect or defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our Users, our employees, or others; (iii) comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or (iv) enforce the Terms of Service or other agreements or policies between you and us related to the Website, the Tool or the Services. 

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YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS IN RELATION TO PRIVACY

In relation to the Personal Data that are processed by Aviatize, you have a number of legal rights:

• You have a right to get access to your Personal Data and to have these data corrected. 
• You may ask Aviatize to erase your Personal Data, or to restrict the processing thereof. 
• To the extent that the processing is based on the legal basis of a legitimate interest or the processing is done for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to oppose that processing. 
• To the extent that the processing is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time.     
• The Aviatize Tool and Services, as well as the activities of Aviatize are intended for commercial application in a professional environment and for use by professional users only. Aviatize does not knowingly or intentionally target, collect, or maintain Personal Data about minors under the age of 18 years. If we obtain actual knowledge that we collected or retained personal information about a child under the age of 18, that information will be promptly deleted from our database, servers, and all other media. Since we do not collect information from Users under 18, no such information is disclosed to third parties. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided Personal Data that is processed by Aviatize, he or she should contact Aviatize at privacy@aviatize.com.     

     Within a duration of maximum 1 month after receipt of your request, we will act upon your request and reply. If for some reason we cannot accommodate your request, we will inform you of the reasons thereof. If we are not in a position to identify you properly, we may ask you to provide a proof of your identity as a prerequisite to treating your request.

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TERMS OF PRIVACY POLICY SURVIVE

If any terms of this Privacy Policy are held invalid and/or unenforceable by a court of law or a competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of this Privacy Policy shall remain in full force and effect. 

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CONTACT AVIATIZE IN RELATION TO DATA PROCESSING

In order to invoke your rights, please contact us at our dedicated privacy e-mail address: privacy@aviatize.com , or send us a letter at the addresses specified above. If on the other hand you have any questions, remarks or complaints in relation to our Privacy Policy or how we process your data, do not hesitate to contact us, either by telephone or e-mail.

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Privacy manager: Tom Verbruggen

Tel: +1 480 718 7129

E-mail: privacy@aviatize.com

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If you have any complaints in relation to how Aviatize BV processes your Personal Data, you may file a complaint with the Supervisory Authority: www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be

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PART II: AVIATIZE AS PROCESSOR (PROCESSOR POLICY)

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SUBJECT MATTER OF THE PROCESSING

The processing considered here below is the processing by Aviatize and/or in the Tool of Customer Personal Data such as data of Users as defined in the Terms of Service. These Customer Personal Data are processed on behalf of the Customer and for the Customer’s purposes. This processing either forms an inherent part of the Customer’s use of the Tool, or relates to Aviatize’s support given for the Tool in the event of incidents. Specific processing operations relate to for instance authentication, reading, creation and submission of flight and business related information, sending of data, monitoring the usage of the software, supporting incidents and customization. With regard to this processing, Aviatize processes the relevant Customer Personal Data on behalf of its Customer. Therefore Aviatize qualifies as a processor for such processing. 

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The Customer of Aviatize takes the initiative for the processing: it decides to use the Tool. Hence, it is the Customer that determines the purposes and means of the processing of the Customer Personal Data and thus qualifies as controller with regard to such processing. Aviatize shall only process the Customer Personal Data for the same Customer Purposes upon request of the Customer and in accordance with its instructions. 

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The customer in its capacity as controller shall be responsible to comply with all (legal) obligations vested in the controller, in particular the obligation to inform the data subjects on the purposes of its processing.

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CUSTOMER PURPOSES FOR THE PROCESSING OF CUSTOMER PERSONAL DATA AND NATURE OF THE PROCESSING OPERATIONS

Aviatize processes Customer Personal Data on behalf of its Customer for the purposes of the Customer.

In the context of these Customer Purposes, Aviatize shall perform the following processing operations for the Customer:

• The delivery of services to the Customer in accordance with the Terms of Service, being amongst others:
  
  • Customisation of the Tool
  • Authentication on parts of the Tool
  • Reading, creation and submission of flight and business related information
  • Sending of data
  • Granting permissions
  • Supporting incidents
  • Improving safety

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OVERVIEW OF THE CUSTOMER PERSONAL DATA, WHICH PARTIES EXPECT TO PROCESS 

The categories of data subjects are the following:

• Customer’s employees, members or students
• Operators as defined in the Terms of Service

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The following data is processed:

For Customer’s employees, members or students:

• Name contact person
• E-mail address
• Company name
• Equipment
• Age
• Documentation needed for flight approvals such as but not limited to licenses, insurance certificates, manuals.

For Operators:

• Name  
• Address
• E-mail address
• Telephone and/or mobile number 
• Company entity and legal form
• Company number
• VAT number
• Login/password 
• Age
• Flight permit
• Equipment
• Documentation needed for flight approvals such as but not limited to licenses, insurance certificates, manuals.

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DURATION OF THE PROCESSING AND RETENTION PERIOD

Aviatize shall retain the Customer Personal Data as long as the Agreement is ongoing. Once the Agreement has been terminated, the Customer Personal Data shall be deleted within six months. 

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SUB-PROCESSORS

The Customer generally authorizes Aviatize to appeal to sub-processors for the processing of Personal Data for the Customer Purposes specified under this policy. The Customer approves Aviatize BV and Aviatize LLC as well as the following sub-processors:

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